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Skylab is scheduled to be launched from Cape Kennedy on May 14 atop a giant Saturn 5 booster and sent into a 269-mile-high orbit of the earth. Next day, a smaller Saturn 1-B rocket will loft an Apollo command ship with three astronauts on board into a similar orbital path around the earth. Seven hours later, the astronauts will rendezvous and dock with Skylab. The men will then move into their posh quarters and prepare to remain there for the next 28 days−four days longer than the previous record set in 1971 by the Russians...
That was in 1893. In the decades since, the infighting between the A.A.U., which governs nonprofessional sports outside the college orbit, and its campus equivalent, the National Collegiate Athletic Association, has become anything but secret. Their rivalry has reached the stage where Congress is again considering demands that the Federal Government act as referee...
...sixth planet of seven-check that, the sixth of seven-counting outwards from the sun, which is the larger of the two stars. Our sixth planet has one moon. Our fourth planet has three. Our first and third planet each have one. Our probe is in the orbit of your moon...
...long-range radio signals to communicate with other intelligent beings. Such signals would be considerably weakened over interstellar distances. Instead, Bracewell said, those far-off beings might employ robot space probes as their message bearers. Sent to a promising nearby star, such a vehicle could swing into an orbit around it at approximately the right distance to encounter a planet with life-supporting temperatures. If it picked up telltale radio signals, the probe might then bounce them back to advertise its presence, thereby producing an effect like the echoes of the 1920s. Finally, as its first message, the robot might...
...than between Munich and Florence. "I was in Florence yesterday," he said, "and I really had the feeling of being on another continent." If ever there is to be a common culture for Europe, he believes that it will be the result of cross-fertilization from the Anglo-American orbit-not so much in art or literature as in lifestyles. "These influences range from the habit, new to Europe, of calling people by their first names, to the social influence of radio and TV shows, to the way that fashions develop outside traditional centers in Europe...